The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume.

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

AMAZING FACTS